WHO PAINTED SPICE BAG’S ORIGINAL?

By Niamh O’Sullivan The doctored eviction image shared by Sinn Féin’s housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin, originally executed in 2021 by the artist Adam Doyle, a.k.a. Mála Spíosraí/Spice Bag, was […]

REBEL WOMEN IN TUDOR IRELAND—SOME CASE-STUDIES

By Henry A. Jefferies Generations of students have learned about ‘Silken Thomas’ FitzGerald and his ill-fated rebellion of 1534/5 but were taught nothing about the involvement of his foster-mother, his […]

REFLECTIONS ON IRISH NATIONAL FLAGS, 1798–1848

By Sylvie Kleinman In February 2023, locals assembled in Ballyfermot People’s Park ‘amongst a sea of flags from around the world’ to counter the racism and xenophobia fuelling ongoing anti-immigration […]

ENGLISH OR NORMANS?

Sir,—History Ireland is up to its old tricks again. In the article on Sefraid Ó Fearghaill (HI 31.1, Jan./Feb. 2023, pp 14–17) by Stephen Hewer it is stated that ‘by […]

THE ENIGMATIC MR DELVIN

Sir,—I may be able to identify ‘the enigmatic “Mr Delvin, Ireland”’ who is cited in Fiona Fitzsimons’s article on ‘Home Children—an Irish perspective, 1860s to 1922’ (HI 34.3, May/June 2023) […]